Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcdchg!falkor!heiby From: heiby@falkor.UUCP (Ron Heiby) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: xx vs. uu Message-ID: <195@falkor.UUCP> Date: 19 Feb 90 05:00:23 GMT References: <1513@krafla.rhi.hi.is> Reply-To: heiby@chg.mcd.mot.com (Ron Heiby) Organization: Luck Dragons, Magic, & Friends Lines: 9 I have *never* had problems with zoo. Further, I *strongly* favor use of an archive format which can be manipulated on most common UNIX derived systems, including both BSD and System V. Almost all sites on Usenet are running some UNIX variant and it is truly convenient to be able to extract descriptive information or documentation (to be printed on the shared printer) before deciding to download. -- Ron Heiby, heiby@chg.mcd.mot.com Moderator: comp.newprod "Life is indeed an inexplicable sequence of imponderable surprises."